MANY years after Sen. Nene Pimentel published his book Martial Law in the Philippines: My Story in 2006, we got to talk about some of our friends who were no longer with us. “Lit, write also a book about your take on our experiences together. There are some details that I forget…tingalig mahinumduman pa nimo ‘tong mga ni-agi”(maybe you will remember some past details). I told Nene (he never wanted me to call him by his formal name, the first time I met him in 1967) that I had already started to write a book in 1998, but couldn’t quite finish it. Aside from our talks on some of the details, I never did show him even excerpts. The reason was simple. I couldn’t finish writing my book — for strictly personal reasons. But I thought, I would publish in my column some excerpts of this unfinished book. It’s the best I can do for a friend who passed away on Oct. 20, 2019.